Thursday, December 15, 2011

Most-spotted Single Ops

Again, from N6TV, here are the most spotted single-ops. He says:

I pulled spot counts for the Top-Ten SOHP stations, as reported so far
to 3830 (plus CR3E who has not posted yet). Note that if you were
spotted once a minute for 48 hours, that would add up to 2880 spots.

Most Spotted USA (SO HP)

K0DQ 6724

K1RX 6681

K3CR 6439

K5ZD 5684

K4ZW 5606

NN1N 5543

N2NT 5052

N9RV 4829

K1DG 4400

K1TO 4218

Most spotted DX (SO HP)

VY2TT 3639

VY2ZM 3541

P40W 2695

P40F 2249

A45XR 2162

PZ5T 1864

8P5A 1647

NH2T 1439

CR3E 1430

CR6K 1253

4O3A 447

Tip (from N6TV): The best way to get spotted by a Skimmer is to send "CQ" or "TEST" and your callsign (twice), with everything sent at the same speed. Sending "TEST" faster than your callsign, or sending the exchange faster than everything else, will make CW Skimmer much less likely
to properly decode your call. CW Skimmer must detect your CW speed
before it can decode any letters successfully. Varying your CW speed
constantly will make it much harder for CW Skimmer to spot you.

N4ZR adds: Also, you *must* send TEST or CQ, or you will not be spotted. These are keywords that Skimmer uses to identify running stations. No keyword, no spot.

Of course, the numbers above reflect the geographic distribution of RBN Skimmers. It is surprising, though, that given the density of RBN contributors in Europe, only CR6K and 4O3A made the list. Perhaps there aren't very many competitive high-power single-ops in Europe, or maybe they were all off operating at the big multis.